Reuters: U.N. Western Sahara talks end with pledge to meet again in 2019

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Two days of U.N. talks on Western Sahara ended with all sides promising to meet again for a similar "round table" in the first quarter of 2019, U.N. envoy Horst Koehler told reporters after the meeting ended unexpectedly early on Thursday.

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